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Cardiac rehabilitation programmes provide exercise training and counselling on risk factor modification for the secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. These are comprehensive, long-term services involving medical evaluation, supervised exercise, risk factor modification, education, and counselling. Participation in a cardiac rehabilitation programme is highly effective in reducing psychologic effects of heart disease, morbidity and mortality after a myocardial infarction and is therefore recommended in all cases (class I recommendation).
Cardiac rehabilitation programmes provide exercise training and counselling on risk factor modification for the secondary prevention of coronary artery disease. These are comprehensive, long-term services involving medical evaluation, supervised exercise, risk factor modification, education, and counselling. Participation in a cardiac rehabilitation programme is highly effective in reducing psychologic effects of heart disease, morbidity and mortality after a myocardial infarction and is therefore recommended in all cases (class I recommendation).
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